[Report 1927] / Medical Officer of Health and School Medical Officer of Health, Derbyshire County Council.

  • Derbyshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1927
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Credit: [Report 1927] / Medical Officer of Health and School Medical Officer of Health, Derbyshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Report on the Health of Derbyshire for the Year 1927. STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS. AREA. The Adinhiistrative County of Derby comprises 40 Sanitary Districts, 4 of which are Municipal Boroughs, 21 Urban Districts and 15 Rural Districts. At the end of 1927 the County had a total area of 645,007 acres, 92,801 of which were within the Urban Districts and 552,296 in the Rural Districts. Durmg the year 1927 the Corporation of the County Borough of Derby was successful in obtaining an extension of the Borough boundary into the County area with the result that on and after April 1st, 1928, the acreage of the County will be decrea.sed by approximately 1,865 acres. The Sanitary Districts and the Parishes affected with the approxi- mate acreage taken into the Borough in each case are as follows :— Alvaston and Boulton Urban District (270 acres); Chaddesden (300), Spondon (121), Sinfin Moor (219), Normanton (700) and Littleover (63) in the SharcUow Rural District; Markcaton (75) and Darlcy Abbey (116) in the Belper Rural District; and Micklcover (1) in the Repton Rural District. POPULATION. The Registrar-General’s estimate of the population of the Adminis- trative County for the year 1927 is 621,000. 321,500 of these are in Boroughs and Urban Districts and 299,500 in Rural Districts. The population of each Sanitary District is shewn in Tables II. and Ila. INHABITATED HOUSES. The number of “ structurally se])arate dwellings ” in the Administrative Cbunty at the time of the 1921 Census was 124,663, the number of private families being 130,139. The estimated number of houses at the end of 1927 v as 142,919, of which 73,731 arc in Boroughs and Urban Districts, and 69,188 in Rural Districts. During the year 4,273 new houses were erected. Se])arate particulars relating to Housing work done in each District are given in Table Vlll., facing page 38.